Dark tourism

Murambi Technical School, where many of the murders in the Rwandan genocide took place, is now a genocide museum.
The Catacombs of Paris have become a popular site for thanatourism, and guided tours are frequently held in small areas of the complex of tunnels and chambers.

Dark tourism (also thanatourism, black tourism, morbid tourism, or grief tourism) has been defined as tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy.[1] More recently, it was suggested that the concept should also include reasons tourists visit that site, since the site's attributes alone may not make a visitor a "dark tourist".[2] The main attraction to dark locations is their historical value rather than their associations with death and suffering.[2][3] Holocaust tourism contains aspects of both dark tourism and heritage tourism.[4]

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  3. ^ Courtney C. Reed (April 2007). "Shedding Light on Dark Tourism". gonomad.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  4. ^ Handayani, B., & George, B. P. (2017). DARK TOURISM AS QUASI-SUICIDE: ACase STUDY OF THE SEA OF TREES. GAZING AT DEATH, 95.